Politics / GOP Border Theatrics Have Escalated to Threats of Civil War Republican states have pledged to mobilize National Guard troops to defend the placement of razor wire at Texas’s southern border. (Lokman Vural Elibol / Anadolu via Getty Images)It’s shaping up to be banner week in the theater of incoherent rage known as Republican border politics. “It is interesting Republicans four months ago would not give funding for Ukraine, for Israel, for our southern border, because we demanded changes in policy,” he said. Texas’s demented putsch has already claimed the lives of three immigrants who drowned in the Rio Grande when the Texas National Guard rebuffed Border Patrol agents seeking to intervene. In addition to the threatened blockade of National Guard troops charged to defend Abbott’s border sadism, right-wing leaders are already dispatching militia-style convoys of armed citizens to Eagle Pass, the site of the Texas border standoff with the feds.

Source: Daily Nation January 30, 2024 15:09 UTC